When Sarah V. Albee was born on 5 August 1846, in Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine, United States, her father, Hiram Albee, was 37 and her mother, Lucinda Butler Smith, was 36. She married Benjamin Frank Tobey on 16 July 1872, in Maine, Caribou, Aroostook, Maine, United States. She lived in North Cambridge, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880 and Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1881. She died on 19 February 1881, at the age of 34, and was buried in Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine, United States.
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"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."
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English: variant of Alby . Compare Albea and Allbee .
History: This is the name of a prominent NH family. Benjamin Albee (1614–53) came to Boston, MA, from Norfolk, England.
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